Sentence examples for although formidable from inspiring English sources

Although formidable practical, political, economic, social, and ethical challenges face the AIDS vaccine development effort, the most fundamental challenges now reside at the level of the basic biology of HIV-1 infection and pathogenesis.

That particular Indian side lacked anything resembling a pace attack and their star-studded batting line-up, although formidable on paper, could best be described as the geriatricos – quality batsmen, but well past their prime.

By the early 1990s the crack scare had faded, but a series of increasingly ferocious laws, passed in the second half of the 1980s, set the framework within which Mr Bush's war on drugs is still waged today.This framework is not immutable, although formidable vested interests—including the police and prison officers now back tough drugs laws.

Although formidable in appearance and manner, Mr Clarke is not quite the cabinet bruiser he is cracked up to be; he is a rather complaisant minister with a reputation for going native in the departments he has been given to run.

Although formidable technical hurdles remain, this progress increases our understanding of tissue regeneration and provide opportunities for developing small molecules that may enhance tissue repair in humans.

The world is now poised to make polio the second, although formidable challenges remain.

Although the formidable Kenya athletics team has had a slow start by its standards, gold medal hopes remain in nearly every distance event.

But Ray Stefani, Ph.D., cautions that the swimmers in Sydney, although a formidable group, have merely returned their Olympic sport to a rate of performance increase approaching that which has been seen throughout the modern Games.

Although a formidable debater who will give Gordon Brown, the chancellor, a hard time as the economy turns from boom to bust, he has limited public appeal and brings back memories of a period that the Tories now prefer to forget.The lone liberal is Oliver Letwin, shadow home secretary.

Indeed – although his formidable energy can make it hard to keep up – I understand he was still endorsing the export of western freedom by force at around the time Michael Gove adopted him as a history mentor, tasked with transforming flabby thematic teaching into something closer to Our Island Story.

It's not completely clear why Flex decided to move out of the business — although the formidable prospect of achieving headway in a business where you have little to no retail experience may have had something to do with it.